I used to follow a bunch of blogs back in college that were in to the obscure genres I liked. That was back in the oughts, so I don't know how it's changed since then. Now I just kinda listen to what I like and don't have the mental energy to devote to exploring for new stuff anymore :(

Music blogs used to be so great. Back then, you could find blogs that were heavily focused around pirating. Like, they would review/describe an album, and then at the end of the review they would just straight up link to a Rapidshare download of the entire album in FLAC

Honestly, I've been falling very behind on listening to new stuff (or discovering awesome new-to-me stuff). My interest in music must be flagging. Or I'm depressed. I haven't listened to a lot of newer stuff that is *squarely* within where my interests lie. I haven't listened to the new LCD Soundsystem yet.

I don't use any streaming stuff except for occasional Pandora usage in the car. My music library that I have on my home server (and uploaded to Google Music) is huge, almost 30k tracks.

What's pretty big for me in recent years is the 'Best Of' lists that you find at the end of the year. I scour those pretty heavily and go on a mass downloading spree of dozens of albums every January. Every year, some generous soul compiles a torrent of Pitchforks Top 100 singles, which I download.

I used to read reviews way more religiously. That used to be a pretty big help in finding new stuff.

There are only ~10 bands I listen to now that I wasn't already listening to in college 15 years ago. Sad, but I just don't feel like I have the time anymore.

I do the following: listen to side projects of people I like, people they collaborate with, stuff on the same label, etc.; used to look at blogs like BrooklynVegan and a handful of others I don't remember but it's been 8-10 years :( ; occasionally I'll listen to an artist's "radio" on Spotify or Pandora and they'll mix in other stuff, but it's mostly music I've heard already and not new stuff; Pitchfork's and others' best-of lists, but I feel too old for that now and it takes a lot of time; festival lineups can be decent, too.